Easypano Holdings (http://www.easypano.com), a developer of panorama
and virtual reality technology, has released Panoweaver 6.0 for
Macintosh. It’s an update of the product for stitching both
cylindrical and spherical 360 degree panoramas from
single-row/multiple rows of digital photos or fisheye photos, and
exporting panoramic images to various players.
Panoweaver 6.0 comes in three editions: Batch, Standard and
Professional. They cost US$999, $99 and $499.99, respectively.
Panoweaver 6.0 adds support for automatic stitching and manual
stitching. You can now recognize the lens type automatically. Version
6 lets you stitch panoramas from single-row/multiple-rows of standard
digital photos and stitch panoramas from fisheye photos (not
available in the Standard edition).
There’s support for creating HDR panoramas and converting HDR to LDR
(not available in the Standard edition) and support stitching Camera
RAW files (ditto regarding the Standard edition). Panoweaver 6.0
supports right click stitching and the ability to save an unfinished
project. You can output single panoramas to Flash, QuickTime and Java
players, batch stitch up to 100 groups of photos to panoramas
(available in 6.0 Batch verison), and batch export panoramas in
Flash, QuickTime and Java players (also available in the Batch
version).
